Double free in Mozilla Firefox and Firefox for Android - CVE-2024-6609

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Double free in Mozilla Firefox and Firefox for Android - CVE-2024-6609

Published: July 21, 2024


Vulnerability identifier: #VU94622
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4 BT: 1.2 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Clear]
CVE-ID: CVE-2024-6609
CWE-ID: CWE-415
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to a boundary error in NSS. A remote attacker can force the browser to free an elliptic curve key which was never allocated and crash the browser.


Affected software

Mozilla Firefox
Firefox for Android
Gentoo Linux
Debian Linux
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing LTSS 15
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing ESPOS 15
SUSE Linux Enterprise Real Time 15
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 15
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12
SUSE Linux Enterprise Workstation Extension 15
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12
SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 12
SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro
SUSE Enterprise Storage
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP2 LTSS
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP2 LTSS
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP3 LTSS
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 15 SP4 LTSS
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP4 LTSS
SUSE Package Hub 15
Desktop Applications Module
openSUSE Leap
Ubuntu
openEuler
SmartFabric Storage Software
Mozilla Thunderbird
nss (Debian package)
www-client/firefox
firefox (Ubuntu package)
MozillaFirefox-translations-common
MozillaFirefox-debugsource
MozillaFirefox-debuginfo
MozillaFirefox-devel
MozillaFirefox
MozillaFirefox-translations-other
MozillaFirefox-branding-upstream
MozillaThunderbird-debugsource
MozillaThunderbird-translations-other
MozillaThunderbird-translations-common
MozillaThunderbird
MozillaThunderbird-debuginfo
firefox
firefox-debuginfo
firefox-debugsource
MozillaFirefox-branding-SLE

How to mitigate CVE-2024-6609

Install updates from vendor's website.

Mozilla Firefox - update to 128.0
Firefox for Android - update to 128.0
SmartFabric Storage Software - update to 1.4.3
Mozilla Thunderbird - update to 128.0
nss (Debian package) - update to 2:3.87.1-1+deb12u1
www-client/firefox - update to 104
firefox (Ubuntu package) - update to 128.0+build2-0ubuntu0.20.04.1
MozillaFirefox-translations-common - addressed in versions 128.1.0-112.221.1, 128.1.0-150200.152.146.1
MozillaFirefox-debugsource - addressed in versions 128.1.0-112.221.1, 128.1.0-150200.152.146.1
MozillaFirefox-debuginfo - addressed in versions 128.1.0-112.221.1, 128.1.0-150200.152.146.1
MozillaFirefox-devel - addressed in versions 128.1.0-112.221.1, 128.1.0-150200.152.146.1
MozillaFirefox - addressed in versions 128.1.0-112.221.1, 128.1.0-150200.152.146.1
MozillaFirefox-translations-other - update to 128.1.0-150200.152.146.1
MozillaFirefox-branding-upstream - update to 128.1.0-150200.152.146.1
MozillaThunderbird-debugsource - update to 128.2.3-150200.8.177.1
MozillaThunderbird-translations-other - update to 128.2.3-150200.8.177.1
MozillaThunderbird-translations-common - update to 128.2.3-150200.8.177.1
MozillaThunderbird - update to 128.2.3-150200.8.177.1
MozillaThunderbird-debuginfo - update to 128.2.3-150200.8.177.1
firefox - update to 128.8.0-1
firefox-debuginfo - update to 128.8.0-1
firefox-debugsource - update to 128.8.0-1
MozillaFirefox-branding-SLE - addressed in versions 128-35.15.1, 128-150200.9.16.1

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